Rockola's Beautiful 1984 490 Horizon Blue Jukebox

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another really cool jukebox video for you this evening it's pouring down the rain outside so you might be able to hear that in the background but uh this is Rock ola's 490 Super Sound jukebox this came out in about 1984 we just got this thing in the other day and got it all fixed up and I'm going to play it for you so you can see what they sound like a little bit because it'll be playing through my phone and then you know we're putting it on YouTube so YouTube's encoder kind of messes with the audio a little bit and then it plays through your phone speaker or your computer speaker and so that's not anything like it being here in person but we figured we'd film a video of it anyway and i' show you a little bit about um how the thing is set up inside now this is the 490 I believe it's a 490 -1 they also made a 490 d224 490 or a 490 D1 the 4901 was was called The Horizon Blue model so that may be what this is because the uh the tile strip board is blue but uh it's got a really cool little light show I'll show you it here uh in a minute with the lights off so you can see how it looks if you were to run across one in a bar in 1984 it's got this uh this one's a little damaged but it's got this strange kind of record look on the side with these little bejweled inserts you know that the light kind of shines out in the dark it's kind of cool the blue t- molding I think we put on I think originally that was black um of course this is how it was originally uh there's little tiny light bulbs behind that that you can remove and then they're mirrored up here too there's also some little light bulbs up here and so if you look they dance across and they the one at the top and the one at the bottom are off at the same time as it goes across cool little look and of course this side is a mirror of the other side it's in a little better shape than the other side and we've got a little coin door uh door down there that you take off so you've got coin insert here usually there's a little thing sticking out here that you can press to get a refund um rockola Super Sound Auto Select plays up to 10 hits it says view the top hit 10 hit the top hits and this says Auto Select top hits so if you press that button this one's pushed in there's a little switch on the back of that we use to fix one of these buttons so it's not it doesn't work anymore hardly anybody use that feature but if you do hit that button it plays up to top 10 hits so you would put money in and then hit that button and it would just automatically play whatever's been played the most in the in the location um it's showing you that the top hit right now is number 100 now I think that's probably needs to be reset because uh uh we put a new battery in the computer that keeps track of all that so it must have uh that's kind of its generic setting and then plays when it's on 99 that means it's on free play you've got a little light here that will light up to say selection playing you've got one that will say your selection and then you've got one that'll light up that say add coins and these little things here could be swapped out this is basically just telling you how much it is per per song you could get your regular keyboard here and reset in case you hit the wrong button like if you try to start with a eight it's going to say error because none of them start with eight so you hit reset it clears that you've got two little smaller speakers up here they look like they're fives and then you've got two down at the bottom that I believe they look like tens maybe um let me see if I can open it up and show show you the inside if I can do it with one hand all right I pulled it off people I knew we'd get through it together so you've got a little bar here that holds it up on some of the other models they use these little gas struts we were just doing a whiter video the other day and it used the gas strut and those things were out after a while but a solid metal bar doesn't usually wear out so that works pretty good so you've got down here your power supply it's where the voltage comes in and then goes back out to everything else they call it the power distribution on the front there um and they they were really good about numbering all of their parts so this is 54920 d a and so you could look in the manual and see which how many different machines use that um and so the p over here you've got the coin Mech uh for the coins uh I guess that little button thing is just missing that you press this in because all of this stuff is still there so if you lose a quarter people you're just going to lose it um this little thing here was a hopper for dollar bills so you could put a dollar bill acceptor in here and it would feed the dollars into there down into the cash box these were the cool dollar bill acceptors with the little tray where you had to lay them down flat and then push them in remember those they were they were at a lot of uh like car washes and stuff for a long time you've got a little mechanism board here that runs the the mech and everything of course you got a big light bulb there you've got another big light bulb there you've got some connectors down there where you can uh plug in external speakers so the the amplifier was strong enough that it could drive more than the speakers that are in the actual box and this is the amplifier here these were really easy to work on they have little boards inside of them that you can take out it's real compartmentalized so you can um adjust the left side and the right side and all that and then this was their computer system so you see it says system 2 control unit they only used these on like three or four boxes and then they moved on to a system 3 control unit that they only used on a few boxes so these are it's a little tricky working on those but um you can see there's a ribbon cable coming out of the top coming up here to the keyboard This is the back side of the keyboard where you press the buttons and pick your song um and then you've got some plugs there this little plug here we were having trouble with the power so I actually made a different connector to make sure that the power was getting the board all right and that ended up not even being the problem so I wasted a bunch of time there and then you've got rock ola's standard mechanism here which worked great and they're they're easy to work on if you've worked on a bunch of them if you worked on other rockolas you know how those work um we'll have to do a video one day showing how to fix some of that stuff um you can see the two speakers we were talking about the five I think those are fives and then the the two big ones are actually down at the bottom you can't you can't easily get to them your title strip board you can actually hit these little things here and this hangs down in front of you so you can change the the titles out and everything what else was I going to show you H there was something else I was going to talk about what was it what was it I don't remember so there you go that is a rock all 4901 now the best part about a rockola is the way it sounds right so you want to hear it so let me put it back down whoa byby you certainly want to hear it right so what I'll do is I'll turn the lights off and then uh I'll show you what it looks like in the dark and we'll play it a little bit now I'll do that on a separate video that I'm uploading right now you don't have to wait or anything just click on the other video because sometimes whenever you play Somebody's music on YouTube they get mad and they have your video blocked and I don't want this part of the video blocked where I'm showing the the game the the Jukebox off so leave your comments below give us a thumbs up for taking the trouble to film it for you and uh click the other video that you see below so that you can uh you can hear what this thing sounds like